Enhanced performance of integrated silicon nanophotonic devices engineered by sub-wavelength grating structures

Daniel Benedikovic; Mathias Berciano; Carlos Alberto Alonso-Ramos; Xavier Le Roux; Sylvain Guerber; Guillaume Marcaud; Vladyslav Vakarin; Diego Pérez-Galacho; Eric Cassan; Delphine Marris-Morini; Pavel Cheben; Frédéric Boeuf; Charles Baudot; Laurent Vivien

doi:10.1117/12.2520780

26 April 2019 Enhanced performance of integrated silicon nanophotonic devices engineered by sub-wavelength grating structures

Daniel Benedikovic, Mathias Berciano, Carlos Alberto Alonso-Ramos, Xavier Le Roux, Sylvain Guerber, Guillaume Marcaud, Vladyslav Vakarin, Diego Pérez-Galacho, Eric Cassan, Delphine Marris-Morini, Pavel Cheben, Frédéric Boeuf, Charles Baudot, Laurent Vivien

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Proceedings Volume 11031, Integrated Optics: Design, Devices, Systems, and Applications V; 1103104 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2520780
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

Sub-wavelength gratings, segmented resonant-less structures with geometries featuring scales considerably smaller than the wavelength of light, have enabled an attractive technological concept to locally control light guiding properties in planar silicon chip architectures. This concept has allowed for additional degrees of freedom to tailor effective mode index, modal confinement, waveguide dispersion, as well as anisotropy, thereby providing a vital route towards high performing devices with engineered optical properties. Sub-wavelength integrated nanophotonics has opened up new horizons for realization of key building components that afford outstanding device performances, typically beyond those achieved by conventional design strategies, yet favorably benefiting from the sub-100-nm pattern resolution of established semiconductor manufacturing tools in nanophotonic foundries. The distinctive features of sub-wavelength grating structures are considered essential for future generation of chip-scale applications in optical communications and interconnects, biomedicine, as well as quantum-based technologies. In this work, we report recent advances in the development of high-performance on-chip nanophotonic waveguides and devices engineered with the sub-wavelength grating metamaterial structures. In particular, we discuss recent achievements of low-loss waveguides with controlled chromatic dispersion, high-efficiency fiber-to-chip surface grating couplers, micro-ring resonators, and grating-assisted waveguide filters, implemented on the mature silicon-on-insulator technology.

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Daniel Benedikovic, Mathias Berciano, Carlos Alberto Alonso-Ramos, Xavier Le Roux, Sylvain Guerber, Guillaume Marcaud, Vladyslav Vakarin, Diego Pérez-Galacho, Eric Cassan, Delphine Marris-Morini, Pavel Cheben, Frédéric Boeuf, Charles Baudot, and Laurent Vivien "Enhanced performance of integrated silicon nanophotonic devices engineered by sub-wavelength grating structures", Proc. SPIE 11031, Integrated Optics: Design, Devices, Systems, and Applications V, 1103104 (26 April 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2520780

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